Word: tavoulareases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued the Washington Post for saying he used his corporate position to "set up his son" in a shipping business, the jurors on the case reportedly proceeded on three intuitive assumptions. First, if a news organization accuses someone, it ought to be able to...
Those assumptions might seem persuasive not only to the jurors in the Tavoulareas case -- who voted him $2.05 million in damages -- but also to many other Americans. As a matter of law, however, they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and...
"I am an American," former Mobil President William P. Tavoulareas declares in his new book, Fighting Back, as he partakes of an old American pastime, attacking enemies in print. Fighting Back, to be published by Simon & Schuster in February, is a stinging critique of the Washington Post, which in 1979...
A draft of the book describes Post Editor Ben Bradlee as having a "kind of preppy, tweedier-than-thou arrogance." The book also attacks Democratic Representative John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which investigated Tavoulareas' dealings, describing him as a "bully boy." The Congressman responded, also...
The case involves a 1979 Post story that implied Tavoulareas had improperly "set up" his son in a London shipping company and then channeled millions of dollars in Mobil business to the firm. A jury found that Tavoulareas had been libeled and awarded him $2.05 million. Judge Oliver Gasch, who...